Polymers in Organic Electronics. Polymer Selection for Electronic, Mechatronic & Optoelectronic Systems
Synopsis "Polymers in Organic Electronics. Polymer Selection for Electronic, Mechatronic & Optoelectronic Systems"
Electronics (including micro, nano, and quantum systems); mechanics (including MEMS, NEMS, MOEMS, and NOEMS); mechatronics (including robots, artificial muscles, and automated air vehicles); informatics (including software, hardware, and communication); materials science (including conjugated polymers, smart materials, and conducting small molecules); and optoelectronics (optical fibers and lenses) are the critical elements of development in science today. An integration is the practical concept by which these elements are combined and implemented; so that a new high performance, low cost, and lightweight organic electronic components (devices or systems) can be produced with shorter lead time.Organic electronics or polymer electronics represent the important branch of material science dealing with electrically conductive polymers and small conductive molecules of carbon-based nature. This branch focuses on optimizing the semi-conductivity, conductivity, light emitting properties of organic materials (polymers, oligomers, and small molecules), and hybrid composites having organic-inorganic structures. That is because organic (p-conjugated) polymers exhibit the following attractive advantages: can be formed and shaped from solution depending on high-tech processes such as spin coating or inkjet printing at room temperature due to their lightweight and flexibility. the capability of acting as electron donors and acceptors for structuring organic photovoltaics such as large scale, micro-, and nano-solar cells. the ability to control their low band gaps energy levels makes them promising for fabricating developed organic electronic systems such as field-effect transistors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, etc. Every year new conducting polymers, small molecules, composites, and complexes are being developed. Parallel to such development, the opportunities for additional electronic applications have increased. Included in this book are polymeric structures of the most familiar electronic devices (micro, opto, nano, etc.). The main objective of this book is to help designers to optimize their design of organic electronic systems built out of novel polymers. For example, it is not enough to calculate the optical constants of an optoelectronic light-emitting diode LED using Afromowitz dielectric model starting from the calculation of real and imaginary part of the dielectric function, but its optical performance must be optimized by applying optical modeling of thin layers on a polymeric substrate. More information in the table of contents or on our web www.chemtec.org.
